Am Donnerstag, den 13.11.2025 um 18 Uhr zeigen wir an der SFU Berlin den Dokumentarfilm „The Return“ (Südafrika, 2024, englisch mit deutschen Untertiteln, 96 min).

In dem Dokumentarfilm erforschen Mark Kaplan und Heidi Grunebaum, beide jüdische Südafrikaner:innen, die komplexen und verwobenen Nachwirkungen von Holocaust, Apartheid und kolonialer rassistischer Gewalt.
Ausgehend von Heidi Grunebaums Familiengeschichte entfaltet der Film ein vielschichtiges Panorama gegenwärtiger Erinnerungskämpfe in Südafrika, Deutschland und darüber hinaus.

Anschließend an die Filmvorführung gibt es Gelegenheit zur Diskussion mit Heidi Grunebaum, Filmemacherin und Professorin am Centre for Humanities Research der University of Western Cape, Südafrika.

The Film
The South African documentary explores the aftermath of the Holocaust and antisemitism, as well as apartheid, colonial violence, contemporary racism and lsrael/Palestine through the interwoven stories of South African and German interviewees involved in a range of memory struggles. lt highlights fractures and connections between ideologies and structures and explores the return of ‚white supremacy‘ and fascism today. Using Heidi Grunebaum’s family story as a portal, the film explores these wider issues as it moves between South Africa and Germany and from there to the controversial significance that Israel has for the German politics of remembrance.

Heidi Grunebaum’s work focuses on social and aesthetic responses to the afterlives of genocide, war and mass violence and on the Holocaust, apartheid and the Palestine Nakba, in particular. Her research interests include Holocaust and genocide studies, critical memory studies,aesthetics and politics, comportative literary, film andnarrative studies, postcolonial theory and public culture. She is the author of the monograph Memorializing the Post: Everyday Life in South Africa after the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
(New Jersey: Transaction, 2011), co-editor with Emile Maurice of Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project Archive (Cape Town: CHR, 2012) and Athlone in Mind (Cape Town: CHR, 2017) with curator Kurt Campbell.

Department Psychologie
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Berlin
Campus Tempelhof
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12101 Berlin – Tempelhof

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